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teer who shall be absent, having duly ob-
tained leave of absence from such Officer
Commanding as aforesaid, shall be liable to
the penalty set forth in the foregoing Regu-
lation.
exempt from attendance for training and
exercise in the Militia; The period of service
of Volunteers under any former Regulations
shall be allowed to reckon: provided that
such former Volunteer shall again Volunteer
and be enrolled before the first day of July
next.

10. If any Volunteer's Arms, Uniform,
    or Accoutrements, shall, in the opinion of
    the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, be in
    a defective or dirty state, he shall forfeit and
    pay any sum not exceeding two shillings and
    sixpence, to be fixed in manner as aforesaid.

11. If any Arms, Uniform, Accoutrements,
    or other Government property shall be lost,
    destroyed or injured in any way other than
    on service, a fine not exceeding the value of
    the Arms, Uniform, Accoutrements, or other
    Government property shall be paid by the
    Volunteer in whose charge they were. Such
    fine shall be fixed by a Board of Officers
    appointed for that purpose by the Officer
    Commanding as aforesaid upon consideration
    of the circumstances, and if not paid to them
    on demand, may be recovered in manner
    hereafter mentioned.

12. If any Volunteer shall not deliver to
    the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, the
    Arms, Uniform, Accoutrements, and other
    Government property entrusted to him as a
    Volunteer, within three days after an order to
    that effect shall have been given to him
    written or verbal by or by the authority of
    the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, he
    shall be liable to a penalty of Twenty Pounds.

13. All Commissioned Officers shall be
    appointed by the Governor, and names for
    that purpose shall, except as respects Staff
    and Field officers be submitted to him
    (through the Officer Commanding as afore-
    said) for his approval by the Troop or
    Company to which they are proposed to be
    appointed. No Commissions will be issued
    (unless to officers who have held Commissions
    in the regular service) until the Candidates
    are found fit after examination.

14. All Non-Commissioned Officers shall
    be nominated by the Captain of the Troop
    or Company to which they are to be appoin-
    ted, and shall be examined by the senior
    officer of such Troop or Company and if
    passed as competent shall be appointed by
    the Officer Commanding as aforesaid.

15. All Volunteers shall be subject to the
    provisions contained in the following sections
    of the "Militia Act 1858," viz:-1, 3, 5, 6,
    7, 9, 10, 19, 20, 22, and 24, and in the fol-
    lowing sections of the "Militia Act Amend-
    ment Act 1860," viz:-10, 11, 13, 14 and
    16, and in the 6th, 7th, and 8th sections of
    the "Militia Acts Amendinent Act 1862."

16. General parades of all the Volunteers
    in each District shall be held on a day in
    each quarter to be fixed by the Governor.

17. Each Volunteer after four years
    service as such, shall be at all times thereafter

18. Every Volunteer shall take the follow-
    ing Oath to be administered to him by the
    Commanding Officer of the body of Volun-
    teers in which he intends to serve, or by
    the Adjutant of Militia or Volunteers :-
    I do sincerely promise and swear that
    I will be faithful and bear true allegiance
    to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and that
    I will faithfully serve in the
    until I shall be lawfully discharged.

19. The Officer Commanding may at any
    time dismiss any Volunteer by order in
    writing or parol and from the time of such
    order such person shall cease to be a
    Volunteer.

20. No Volunteer shall be entitled to
    receive any Government prize who shall not
    have been a Volunteer at least three months
    before and up to the first day fixed for the
    firing for such prize.

21. In the construction of these Regu-
    lations the phrase "Officer Commanding"
    or "Commanding Officer" shall in the case
    of his absence from the District or inca-
    pacity to act by reason of illness or any
    other cause, which absence need not be
    proved in any judicial proceeding, mean the
    officer of the same body of Volunteers next
    in seniority.

22. All fines and penalties imposed by
    these Regulations or any parts of Acts in-
    corporated therewith or fixed by any person
    or body under authority of these Regulations
    shall be recoverable in a summary way before
    any Justice of the Peace on behalf of the
    Government by any officer of the body of
    Volunteers to which the person offending
    may belong: Provided that in any case where
    a fine shall have been fixed as aforesaid, such
    fine with the costs shall be levied and
    collected by the Justice without further
    evidence in relation thereto than that such
    fine was fixed and imposed upon the person,
    summoned by the Officer Commanding or
    other person or body authorized by these
    Regulations.

F. D. FENTON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

CLAUSES OF ACTS EMBODIED IN THE
REGULATIONS.

MILITIA ACT, 1858.

Power to Governor to call together Militia.
I. It shall be lawful for the Governor to call to-
gether, arm, and array as a Militia such persons as are
mentioned, and, subject to the provisions
hereinafter contained, to cause them to be trained and